Quotes by Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

About Carolyn Gold Heilbrun:

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun was an American academic at Columbia University, the first woman to receive tenure in the English department, and a prolific feminist author of important academic studies. In addition, beginning in the 1960s, she published numerous popular mystery novels with a woman protagonist, under the pen name of Amanda Cross. These have been translated into numerous languages and in total sold nearly one million copies worldwide.
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We in middle age require adventure.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

The journey is over. Love to all.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Author Bio

  • NameCarolyn Gold Heilbrun
  • DescriptionAcademic, novelist
  • BornJanuary 13, 1926
  • DiedOctober 9, 2003
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAuthor; Novelist
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship